A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Health Care, John McCain, Politics on Oct 9th, 2008
My mother had a great letter published today in the Santa Barbara News Press. Viewing it online requires a login, so here’s the full text:
John McCain’s tax credit of $5000 for health insurance is a drop in the bucket. My husband and I pay $1200 a month for self-employed health insurance premiums. That amounts to […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Choice, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Oct 7th, 2008
Since my last post about Joining the Obama Campaign I’ve gone into the local Obama campaign office about once a week to volunteer. Although I tried at first to convince the volunteer coordinators that I should do data entry, they’ve mostly had me making phone calls. The way it works is that I get a […]
Posted in Election 2008, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin on Oct 3rd, 2008
My reaction to the vice-presidential debate last night: Incessantly claiming that you’re a maverick does not make you a maverick. As my high school English teachers would say, “Show us, don’t tell us.” And Sarah Palin did little to show us any evidence last night that the Republican ticket would be anything more than Bush’s […]
Posted in Economy, John McCain on Oct 2nd, 2008
From CNN’s Political Ticker comes this gem from the McCain campaign:
John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”
“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain told Fox News Thursday. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to […]
Posted in Economy, John McCain on Oct 1st, 2008
It’s amusing to watch Republican presidential candidate John McCain claim to support government regulations and oversight in light of the current financial crisis when he’s been fighting against just that for his entire political career.
This video from BraveNewFilms illustrates this disconnect quite well.
Posted in Economy, John McCain on Sep 24th, 2008
I find economics confusing in the best of times, so the current situation in the United States is bewildering at best. However, I’ve found two articles that explain fairly clearly how the deregulation favored by John McCain and Phil Gramm has led directly to the mess in which we find ourselves. If you’re confused by […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Sep 18th, 2008
Sarah (full disclosure: my sister) is participating in an interesting discussion over at An Angry American. The conversation there is I think quite representative of the political conversation as a whole in this country. Sarah wrote several specific, concrete, points about why she’s voting for Obama: the economy, the war in Iraq, abortion, etc. Her […]
Posted in Election 2008, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin on Sep 5th, 2008
When I saw the photo of Sarah Palin’s family on stage at the Republican National Convention, I felt like I was a part of some surreal alternative universe. There was Palin’s seventeen year-old pregnant unmarried daughter and her boyfriend. And the conservatives were cheering their hearts out. Even James Dobson of Focus on the Family […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin on Sep 2nd, 2008
I wrote previously that I was unexcited about Joe Biden. I had never questioned Biden’s qualifications, which are superb. Instead, I hoped that Barack Obama would pick someone other than “a respected white male (boring) politician.” Well, Biden is still white and male. But after hearing him speak, I can retract the boring part. He […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Aug 26th, 2008
George W. Bush is one of the most unpopular presidents ever, and John McCain is offering more of the same. Barack Obama, on the other hand, has innovate ideas and approaches, is an inspiring speaker, and is running on the opposition party’s ticket. Obama should be running away with this race, yet polls show Obama […]